Re: [PATCH 1/2 net] ibmvnic: Fix overflowing firmware/hardware TX queue

From: Thomas Falcon <redacted>
Date: Sun,  5 Mar 2017 12:18:41 -0600

Use a counter to track the number of outstanding transmissions sent
that have not received completions. If the counter reaches the maximum
number of queue entries, stop transmissions on that queue. As we receive 
more completions from firmware, wake the queue once the counter reaches 
an acceptable level.

This patch prevents hardware/firmware TX queue from filling up and
and generating errors.  Since incorporating this fix, internal testing
has reported that these firmware errors have stopped.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <redacted>

Applied.